Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The Journal of the Royal Society Interface is a monthly, cross-disciplinary journal published by the Royal Society that publishes research at the interface between the physical and life sciences, launched in 2004, with a 2025 impact factor of 3.4（Journal of the Royal Society Interface）是由（Royal Society）出版的跨学科月刊，发表物理科学与生命科学交叉领域的研究，2004 年创刊，2025 年影响因子为 3.4。

Scope

• Research applying chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics and physics to the biological and medical sciences将化学、工程、材料科学、数学与物理应用于生物学与医学的研究。
• Discoveries in the life sciences that are relevant to the physical sciences, with both sides of the interface treated equally与物理科学相关的生命科学发现，界面两侧受到同等重视。
• Topics include biocomplexity, biomaterials, biomathematics, biomechanics, bioengineering, biomimetics and biophysics主题涵盖生物复杂性、生物材料、生物数学、生物力学、生物工程、仿生学与生物物理学。
• Further areas cover computational biology, environmental science, evolution, synthetic biology and systems biology进一步领域涵盖计算生物学、环境科学、演化、合成生物学与系统生物学。
• It publishes predominantly research articles, together with both commissioned and non-commissioned reviews该刊以研究论文为主，同时发表约稿与非约稿综述。

History

• It was launched in 2004 by the Royal Society to provide a home for cross-disciplinary research that had no natural single-discipline outlet该刊 2004 年由（Royal Society）创办，为缺乏单一学科归属的跨学科研究提供发表园地。
• It is a Plan S compliant journal and is issued monthly该刊符合 Plan S 要求，按月出版。
• From 2026 the Royal Society moved its subscription journals to open access under Subscribe to Open, so the journal is free to read and charges no article processing fee自 2026 年起，（Royal Society）的订阅期刊经 Subscribe to Open 转为开放获取，该刊因此免费阅读且不收文章处理费。
• It had a 2025 impact factor of 3.4 and a CiteScore of 6.4, and is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Web of Science and Scopus该刊 2025 年影响因子为 3.4，CiteScore 为 6.4，被 PubMed、PubMed Central、Web of Science 与 Scopus 收录。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Richard Cogdell FRS, whose expertise lies in the physical sciences of biological systems现任主编为 Richard Cogdell（英国皇家学会会士），专长于生物体系的物理科学。
• The journal maintains an international editorial board with expertise across the biological and physical sciences该刊设有国际化编委会，专长横跨生物科学与物理科学。
• The editors are responsible for all editorial decisions and make them on the basis of the referees' reports编辑对全部编辑决定负责，并依据审稿人报告作出决定。
• Acceptance rests on outstanding quality and international importance, originality and cross-disciplinary interest rather than incremental advance录用取决于卓越质量与国际重要性、原创性及跨学科意义，而非增量式进展。